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Robin Havard

Work Department

Dispute management.

Position

Robin specialises in regulatory and professional conduct work, acting for public and private companies and their directors, public sector organisations, and regulatory bodies. Robin has, for many years, acted on behalf of the Solicitorsâ€™ Regulation Authority (and previously the Law Society) in the investigation and presentation of cases before the Solicitorsâ€™ Disciplinary Tribunal. This has involved the need to work extremely closely with lawyers within the legal and enforcement team at the SRA in Birmingham. Robin deals with all aspects of contentious matters involving health and safety legislation and environmental Law, having advised and represented a wide range of both private and public companies on compliance with environmental law and health and safety legislation, including defence of prosecutions, conduct of appeals against prohibition, improvement, and enforcement notices. Numerous cases were complex and high profile.

Wales: Human resources

Health and safety

The 'professional but very personable' team at Blake Morgan LLPÂ has a strong reputation in the market for contentious matters, as well as for handling health and safety compliance and management issues on behalf of private and public sector clients. Praised for her 'excellent judgement' and 'way of addressing complex matters without them becoming a crisis', Claire RawleÂ handles 'a large amount of very high-quality work in health and safety, as well as institutional health care'. 'Very studious andhardworking' senior associate barrister Tom WalkerÂ has a 'clear and reassuring way of dealing with theregulators' on behalf of both individuals and corporate defendants across an array ofÂ health and safety, health and social care, and environment matters.Â Â Robin HavardÂ is also recommended.

The 'professional but very personable' team at Blake Morgan LLPÂ has a strong reputation in the market for contentious matters, as well as for handling health and safety compliance and management issues on behalf of private and public sector clients. Praised for her 'excellent judgement' and 'way of addressing complex matters without them becoming a crisis', Claire RawleÂ handles 'a large amount of very high-quality work in health and safety, as well as institutional health care'. 'Very studious andhardworking' senior associate barrister Tom WalkerÂ has a 'clear and reassuring way of dealing with theregulators' on behalf of both individuals and corporate defendants across an array ofÂ health and safety, health and social care, and environment matters.Â Â Robin HavardÂ is also recommended.

Mr Shardul Thacker heads the shipping, oil and gas and banking practice group at Mulla & Mulla & Craigie Blunt & Caroe. Lloydâ€™s List ranked him third in their top 10 lawyers stating: â€śHighly regarded for his work in the liquefied natural gas sector, particularly for interesting and highly geared finance deals in relation to infrastructure projects, energy, ports and ships.â€ťÂ india_-_gtdt_shipping_

India is a common-law jurisdiction. In general, Indian laws borrow heavily from, and are based on, English law. However, insurance law in India has certain unique features that deviate from English insurance law. The primary legislation of insurance law in India is the Insurance Act, 1938 (the â€śInsurance Actâ€ť) and the Insurance Rules, 1939 (the â€śInsurance Rulesâ€ť).

AVELLUM acted as the Ukrainian legal counsel to Private Joint Stock Company with Foreign Investments â€śSlobozhanska Budivelna Keramikaâ€ť (â€śSBK â€ť) in connection with the restructuring and refinancing of SBKâ€™s debt, valued at approximately EUR20 million. Atlas Advisors, an independent investment banking firm, acted as the exclusive financial advisor to the SBKâ€™s shareholders in connection with the restructuring of the credit portfolio, attraction of financing for the debtâ€™s refinancing, and buy-out of SBKâ€™s shares.

AVELLUM acted as the Ukrainian legal counsel to the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine on the USD2Â billion sovereign Eurobond issue consisting of two tranches with 5.5Â and 10-year tenor. J.P.Â Morgan Securities, Goldman Sachs, BNPÂ Paribas, and Citigroup acted as joint lead managers on the transaction.

The new anti-money laundering ( AML ) law of the UAE took effect at the end of October 2018. Containing features recommended by the Financial Action Task Force ( FATF ), the new law introduces subtle but important changes to the AML landscape in the UAE.Â

The UAE federal government has recently issued a raft of important legislation, addressing and in many ways updating areas of law that are key to businesses in the jurisdiction. Amongst this legislation is Federal Decree-Law 14 of 2018 concerning the central bank and the organisation of financial institutions and activities (the New Banking Law ) and Federal Decree-Law 20 of 2018 concerning anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing (the New AML Law ). Both the New Banking Law and the New AML Law repeal and replace the previous legislation on their respective subjects. Importantly, the New Banking Law and the New AML Law have together enhanced the protection afforded to confidential information under UAE law, in particular where financial and legal service providers and their customers and clients are concerned.Â

Earlier this year, the Israel Tax Authority (ITA) issued two circulars, one on the taxation of
digital tokens and the second addressing the taxation of utility tokens in initial coin offerings
(ICOs). Additionally, in March, the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) released a detailed
interim report by the Committee for the Regulation of Public Offerings of Decentralized
Cryptocurrency Coins (Report) (with a follow-up report due to come out around October
2018). Moreover, it is expected that before the end of 2018, legislation will come into force
that for the first time will see Israeli primary legislation define virtual currencies as financial
assets and mandate licensing for related services, as is later discussed in detail.